Jonathan Toews, Winnipeg Jets exec Mark Chipman deliver NHL game jerseys with Broncos name plates to Humboldt

Chicago Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews and Winnipeg Jets executive chairman Mark Chipman delivered game-worn jerseys with Broncos name plates to the Humboldt junior hockey team today, a week after the deadly crash of the bus carrying the players and staff to a playoff game.

The jerseys were worn during theApril 7 NHL matchbetween the Blackhawks and the Jets in Winnipeg, the hometown of three-time Stanley Cup winner Toews.

"I can't for one second pretend that I know what it's like for anyone close tothis event, to know what they'regoing through what they're feeling,"Toewssaid.

"But just to know the entire hockey world is there for them, support and love is there."

Sixteen people, including 10 players with the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Broncos, died when the Broncos team bus and a semi-truck collided south of Nipawina week ago.

Fourteen were killed at the crash scene, and two other people died after being taken to hospital.

"It's not hard to put yourself in that spot because ... you've been in that position for so many hours throughout your hockey career," Toews said.

"It's just really hard to think that there's tragic moments like this."

The Broncos were on a road trip to face the Nipawin Hawks in a playoff game.

The SJHL board voted unanimously Wednesday to proceed withthe playoffs. The Hawks will host the Estevan Bruins on Saturday night in the first game of the league final.

Along with the 10 Broncos players, the busdriver, the team's athletic therapist, the head coach, the assistant coach, a play-by-play broadcaster and a statistician also died. The other 13 occupants of the bus were injured.

"Everybody wants to do something in some way, you know, and so and that's kind of what brought us here is just a desire to show this community andthe parents ... just to be able to convey that you know we're behind them and hopefully that brings some small measure of comfort I guess," Chipman said.

Three funerals are being held Friday, for:

• Adam Heroldin Montmartre, Sask.
• Bus driver Glen Doerksenin Carrot River.
• Jacob Leichtin his hometown of Humboldt.

The first funeral was heldThursday, for 29-year-old Tyler Bieber, whoworked for 107.5The Bolt and was the play-by-play announcer for the Broncos.